Ending capital punishment is reachable goal for Tennessee

As Maryland abolished its death penalty last week, we are seeing that the trend is away from executions in the United States.

Maryland lawmakers heard both sides present their cases, and they came down on the side of abolition. In the past six years, six states have eliminated the death penalty. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and former holder of slaves, to do so.

Tennessee seems to have had great restraint when it comes to putting people to death. However, an even more startling statistic is that only three of those 10 states carried out any executions in 2012, for a total of 24 people.

Perhaps we will have the company of other Southern states when our turn comes.

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Ending capital punishment is reachable goal for Tennessee

As Maryland abolished its death penalty last week, we are seeing that the trend is away from executions in the United States.